Clonal turnover versus clonal decay: a null model for observed patterns of asexual longevity, diversity and distribution.
Phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies suggest that a majority of asexual organisms are evolutionarily recent offshoots of extant sexual taxa and that old clonal lineages tend to be isolated from their sexual and younger asexual counterparts. These observations have often been interpreted as suppo...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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